GOP Clears Rep. Livingston
To Continue Heading Panel

a Wall Street Journal Staff Reporter

Updated Nov. 22, 1996 12:54 a.m. ET

WASHINGTON -- Rep. Robert Livingston won the blessing of his Republican leadership to remain as chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, a post he first filled on an interim basis during the corruption trial of Pennsylvania Rep. Joseph McDade.

Mr. McDade, who was acquitted this past summer, had hoped to reclaim the chairmanship by rights of seniority. But Mr. Livingston, a 53-year-old Louisiana conservative, is more in sync...